TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 06: Scientist/educator Bill Nye attends "The Science Guy: Science Can Save The World!" at National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation on August 6, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Jun Sato/Getty Images)

He pointed to the upcoming federal election, saying the future of the environment will be in the hands of whoever Canada elects as its next leader.

“Everybody says they feel like the tipping point’s been reached. Everyone we speak with, where enough is enough kind of thing. But then you have people that are in denial of climate change, who justify all of this extraordinary exploitation to the environment,” he said. “It’s amazing the scale of it, is just very hard to believe and very troubling.”

Nye has long been vocal about the need for climate change discourse. In an interview with VICE last year, he spoke about the influence of the energy industry on the Canadian government.

“[Prime Minister] Stephen Harper is a controversial guy in the science community because [of] the policies, especially in Western Canada, with regard to the production— that’s the verb they use, “producing,” but you’re taking old earth and burning it — of tar sands, oil shale… Is there tar shale? Is there sand goo? Whatever,” he said.

Nye is the lastest in a list of celebrities to visit the oilsands. In recent years, Leonardo DiCaprio, Neil Young and Desmond Tutu have all voiced their concerns about Canada’s fossil fuel industry.

Nye visited the community of Fort McKay First Nation Monday. Fort McKay is encamped by tar sands activity and has suffered the consequences of environmental damages over the many decades since the tar sands were discovered in their traditional territories. (APTN)